Week 5

[airlockedmods]

Week 5

[In a tragic yet seemingly inevitable turn of fate, the Champions have lost Zombina this week. OsoKaramatsu and Korra, too, are gone, both having fallen in their attempts to help their fellow Champions out of terrible circumstances.

Again, the Champions will find themselves experiencing strange dreams on Sunday night, until they're awakened by C.E.C.E.'s announcement. This is all starting to become routine.]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your third trial, you have unlocked the fourth floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.!

[The trash compactor is completely shiny and new again. In addition, the profiles on the P.I.P.s still inticate that Karamatsu is dead. Because of course he is, right?

Fuck you.]


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(( Welcome to Week 5! Don't forget to check in and submit your memory regains! Turn in your benefactor threads for sweet loot, too! ))

Comments

[airlockedmods]

I could.

[playthedamncard]

Oh har har. Do I have to say please? CECE, please tell us where the control room is.

[le_mat]

I like her, she's funny.

[airlockedmods]

I have learned a lot from observing you all.

[I learned it from watching you!!!]

I have the capability. I do not have the permissions.

[playthedamncard]

Ah. I was afraid of that.

[You know what, he's not gonna try the Champion doors. There's no reason those should open for him...unless they're unlocked for being unoccupied? But he is going to try some of the doors along the other side of the hallway.]

I could help you if only I had access to a computer. I don't supposed you're allowed to tell us where we could find some of those, either.

[le_mat]

That'd be too easy, Hey CECE, do our PIPs open anything over here?

[airlockedmods]

[The doors are all consciously locked.]

I can tell you they're somewhere.

[le_mat]

Tch. Forget it, she can't tell us anything. We're running out of time.

[playthedamncard]

All these doors here seem to be locked. They might have a key to use them or just aren't using them at all. [He had neglected the champion rooms, but there's no harm in trying them now, physically and with the PIPs. And none of those open, either.]

We can't have come here for nothing... [It's loud enough to be heard, but it seems more like he's talking to himself.] There can't be nothing.

[theoverseeing]

[Out of the individual room at the end of the hall comes Rox herself, nose buried in her perfectly intact phone.]

Well, well, well. It looks like Blaze left the door open and let a couple of little birdies fly in.

[playthedamncard]

[Kaiba whirls to face her and already looks ready for a fucking fight if it comes to it.]

Seems your security system is a little shoddy. So, par for the course when it comes to you.

[le_mat]

Honestly I could have broken in here weeks ago.

[he mirrors Kaiba, ready to brawl]

[theoverseeing]

[She doesn't seem to be intimidated by their circling. After all, a shark isn't about to be scared by a couple of minnows.

Upon closer inspection, this phone is very slightly different from the one that was destroyed in Friday's trial.]

Mmmhm. Now what should I do with you, little mice? I can't just let you scurry back thinking that you've successfully dodged the lion's jaws.

[playthedamncard]

[You know what, if she said it was 3D printed, he wouldn't even bat an eye. Or maybe she just has Many Phone. Who knows? Not any the fuck one here. She's still out numbered.]

As we've told your oh so helpful AI, we haven't broken any rules. There's nothing to punish. What you can do is show us the way out of here, but you don't strike me as someone who likes doing anything the easy way.

[le_mat]

Lay a hand on us, and it throws all the rules of this little "experiment" right out the window. But after Karamatsu, I kinda doubt you give a fuck.

[theoverseeing]

"The way out?" It's right back the way you came, of course. You're a smart little boy, you know that.

[She doesn't make any move toward them, just keeps texting.]

[playthedamncard]

You know damn well what I mean. We can even come to an agreement. Make a deal. After all, you're in this just as we are.

[theoverseeing]

[She looks up, and laughs right at him before looking back at her phone.]

Oh, I don't think so, honey.

[le_mat]

[akira looks over, tilting his head.

Not leaving empty-handed ]

[playthedamncard]

Then it's the hard way? Boring. And here I thought we could negotiate like adults, but over and over again, you want us to act like animals.

[His heel clicks sharply on the floor when he's finally stopped moving and circling around.]

Don't go poking dragons with sticks, honey.

[roll for initiative]

[theoverseeing]

[That's cute.

taptaptaptap]

[le_mat]

[that's all the cue he needs- Kaiba used that same phrase with him, and it's as good as a pre-planned code word.

He tenses, moves to lunge-]

[playthedamncard]

[And like hell is he letting Akira do this alone--one of them has to get this right. She can't get them both. They could always take out the Overseers both, her and Dudely when he returns from his grim duty. Besides. He's a god damn dragon.

At the same time as Akira, Kaiba makes his own move to lunge--]

[theoverseeing]

["She can't take them both."

She swipes her finger across her phone, taking a step back out of the path of the two boys.

One major thing happens: electric, white-hot pain shoots up both of their arms from their PIPs, enough to throw them both completely off from their plan to double-team her, enough to drive them to their knees, enough to leave their non-dominant hand probably numb for the next couple of days, but not enough to kill them.

They might have a hard time stopping their momentum, though.]

[le_mat]

[it's like being hit by a million zios. It's sudden and burning and akira is pretty sure he blacks out for second as his body tangles in itself, carried by the force of his leap]